See also:FARNABY (or FARNABIE), See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (c. 1575–1647)
, See also:English grammarian, was the son of a See also:London See also:carpenter; his grandfather, it is said, had been See also:mayor of See also:Truro, his See also:great-grandfather an See also:Italian musician
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Between 1590 and 1595 he appears successively as a student of Merton See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil in a Jesuit college in See also:Spain, and a follower of See also:Drake and See also:Hawkins
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After some military service in the See also:Low Countries " he made shift," says See also:Wood, " to be set on See also:shore in the western See also:part of See also:England; where, after some wandering to and fro under the name of Tho
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Bainrafe, the See also:anagram of his sirname, he settled at Martock, in See also:Somersetshire, and taught the See also:grammar school there for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time with success
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After he had gotten some feathers at Martock, he took his See also:flight to London," and opened a school in Goldsmiths' Rents, Cripplegate
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From this school, which had as many as 300 pupils, there issued, says Wood, " more churchmen and statesmen than from any school taught by one See also:man in England." In the course of his London career " he was made See also:master of arts of See also:Cambridge, and soon after incorporated at Oxon." Such was his success that he was enabled to buy an See also:estate at Otford near See also:Sevenoaks, See also:Kent, to which he retired from London in 1636, still, however, carrying on his profession of schoolmaster
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In course of time he added to his Otford estate and bought another near See also:Horsham in See also:Sussex
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In politics he was a royalist; and, suspected of participation in the rising near Tunbridge, 1643, he was imprisoned in See also:Ely See also:House, See also:Holborn
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He died at Sevenoaks on the 12th of See also:June 1647
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The details of his See also:life were derived by See also:Anthony a Wood from See also:Francis, See also:Farnaby's son by a second See also:marriage (see Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, ed
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See also:Bliss, iii
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213)
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His See also:works chiefly consisted of annotated See also:editions of Latin authors—See also:Juvenal, See also:Persius, See also:Seneca, See also:Martial, See also:Lucan, See also:Virgil, See also:Ovid and See also:Terence, which enjoyed extraordinary popularity
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His Systerna grammaticum was published in London in 1641
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On the 6zh of See also:April 1632, Farnaby was presented with a royal patent granting him, for the space of twenty-one years, the See also:sole right of See also:printing and See also:publishing certain of his works
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